Scale 6x: Stormy Peters: What is a Community Manager?

The first day of SCALE 6x, I camped out in the Women in Open Source track. One of the sessions that I caught during this day was Stormy Peters' excellent, "What is a Community Manager?" presentation. My notes - in point form rather than prose - follow.

Tags: Alolita Sharma, Bytesfree.org, community, Community Manager, conference, Dawn [...]

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OpenMind 2007: Monty's Session on Building MySQL Community

I've come in late for Monty's session - everything seems to be running a bit early - how odd.
Monty's is covering mistakes in building communities - he's talking about Dream Box and how they have let their community fragment so deeply. Then he talks about how MySQL has provided a strong central point for the [...]

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OpenMind 2007: Monty on the Future (and Past) of Databases

After a break, Tommi Mikkonen of the Tampere University of Technology introduces Monty Widenius (who is, as most readers of this blog will know is one of the founders of MySQL AB)
Monty takes the stage wearing a suit - a nice suit - something I don't recall having seen before.
He starts with an overview [...]

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2007 MySQL Users Conference

I wonder how many people will attend a session at a tech conference where the start of the description reads as follows:
Hey You! Yes, You! Manager, marketeer, sales professional: are you tired of 98lb weaklings kicking silicon in your face?
I am thinking this way because my friends at MySQL AB are putting on another MySQL [...]

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"Guerilla Evangelism: Opening Closed Environments" talk at EuroOSCON

At the 2004 Foo Camp, Danese Cooper, a few other FLOSS advocates (forgive me, Foo Camp is a blur and I don't remember who you were) and myself gave an ad hoc session on the methods and strategies that we each used to advocate FLOSS and to help people working closed environments become more open.
The [...]

About Zak Greant: Bio and Background

Hi! My name is Zak Greant and I've tired of writing things in the third person (at least for today.)
I own a strategic consultancy called Foo Associates – we help technology organizations adapt to and thrive on the electronic frontier. We're a tiny shop, but we've got great clients (like eZ Systems AS and the [...]

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Oracle: We are the Borg?

Local venture cap/tech blogger Paul Kedrosky recent posted that:
Larry Ellison has allegedly cooked up a plan to do a wide-ranging roll-up of companies in the open-source space. Not just JBoss, but a host of others, from Spikesource to Zend, and more inbetween. About the only sizable o/s company left standing would be Red Hat.
This may [...]

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MySQL User Conference 2004 Call For Papers

MySQL AB is please to announce that the Call for Papers for the 2004 MySQL User Conference is now officially open.
We encourage every MySQL user with something to say - from grey-bearded hackers and peach-fuzzed power users to corporate code wranglers and veteran DBAs - to drop by http://mysql.com/events/uc2004/speakers.html and write up your proposals [...]

Session at OSCON 2003

I will be co-presenting a session at OSCON 2003 with MySQL AB Founder and CTO Michael "Monty" Widenius.

Details on the session are below:

A Guided Tour of the MySQL Source Code

The major systems and sub-systems of MySQL will be reviewed. Key sections of code for each system that is covered will be shown and discussed. [...]

Rhode Island and LAMP

Rhode Island put itself on the cutting edge of hot-technology uptake
last year when it became one of the first state governments to get
beyond traditional government conservatism and implement open-source
technology. The gamble is paying off: The bill for the state's rules
and regula-tions database came in at $40,000\227only $6,000 of which was
hardware costs\227and took one consultant four [...]